Jamaica went down to Honduras in an away match which saw them losing by a margin of 2-0. As a result the team’s coach was fired this morning by the President of the Jamaica Football Federation Captain Horace Burrell. Jamaica has lost it’s last two away matches and now resides at the bottom of the CONCACAF group in which they reside along with Mexico, Honduras, and Canada.

It was a thorough and decisive victory for the Mexican team. 3-0 is what the scoreboard read after their encounter with the Jamaican Reggae Boyz at the the Azteca. Although the Boyz can take solace in the fact that this has been their smallest margin of defeat at the Azteca, the clinic that the Mexicans put on, might be somewhat disheartening. With Ian Goodison nursing an ankle injury out of it, they might actually be feeling somewhat vulnerable as they have yet to play Honduras in their away match. All in all, the campaign still is drawing many parallels to the previous successful campaign, with the Boyz still remaining in contention to book a spot out of the “Group of Death”.

It was cause for celebration and pandemonium as Jamaica’s track stars put on yet another stunning display of power at the Van Damme Memorial meeting in Brussels on Friday night. Bolt finished yet again ahead of Asafa Powell with Nesta Carter and Michael Frater rounding out the top 4. Bolt won in 9.77s to beat Powell.

Showing the class and staying power of a true champion, Veronica Campbell-Brown stayed ahead of the field from start to finish to finish atop the field and complete a sprint medal sweep for the Jamaicans. Finishing in a personal best of 21.74s well ahead of Allyson Felix who finished in 21.93s. Kerron Stewart was icing on the Jamaican cake coming in third in 22.0s. Windies Sports wants to congratulate Veronica on her phenomenal performance and her defence.

Usain Bolt has proved the pundits right with a magnificent run that has him beating the seemingly unbeatable record of Michael Johnson, running 19.30 to top a crack field that included the previous olympic champion, Shawn Crawford. Churandy Martina put in a sterling performance, setting a National Record in the process to make it a Caribbean 1-2 on the podium. Bolt’s performance beats Johnson’s record by a full .02 seconds. So awe inspiring was the performance that even the American team was elated with the performance. Wallace Spearmon shouting his congratulations into the camera. Windies Sports congratulates Usain Bolt on a stunning and superb performance on the world’s largest track stage.

Melaine Walker exercised the calm resolve of an assassin in executing a near flawless 400M Hurdles plan to come out on top of the field. Walker came through in the last 100M to decimate the field, beating the closest finisher by a full second to finish in 52.64s a new Olympic Record, the 4th fastest time in history. Sheena Tosta and Natasha Danvers were only able to get second and third. Windies Sports congratulates Melaine Walker on her superb representation of Caribbean athletes everywhere.

As if to punctuate Jamaica’s track dominance, Jamaica has swept the medals at the Olympics 100M. Entering 3 athletes into the finals, the unthinkable happened with Jamaica’s three athletes all medaling. Kerron Stewart put in a gutsy performance, slow out of the blocks Kerron tracked down the entire field to cop a shared silver with team mate Sherone Simpson. In what seems like a statement to the unbelievable nature of the win, they share the same 10.98s. For Shelly Ann Fraser it was nothing but magic. Getting up first and never relinquishing the lead, Fraser was Boltesque in her delivery, celebrating her victory with wide eyes and a pumping fist even before crossing the line in her gold winning performance of 10.78s, a personal best. Her performance undoubtedly looked on as vindication to the MVP camp, she’s brought tears to an already softened Jamaican audience. So Jamaican track and field will see themselves placed on the podium with a Gold and two silvers. This will obviously test the logistical prowess of the Chinese as this is as unusual as it comes.

Both Cleopatra Borel-Brown from Trinidad and Tobago as well as Zara Northover were unable to make inroads in the competition after finishing 7th and 16th respectively.

BOREL-BROWN, Cleopatra
17.96m
17.32m
17.57m

NORTHOVER, Zara
15.73m
15.85m
15.64m

Jamaica’s Dorian Scott was unable to get through to the medal round of the shotput after finishing 8th. Here were Scott’s numbers:

1. 19.54m
2. 19.94m
3. 19.71m

100M Men’s
1. Asafa Powell JAM 9.82s
2. Darvis Patton USA 9.98s
3. Nesta Carter JAM 10.02s

100M Women’s
1. Kerron Stewart JAM 10.94s
2. Sherone Simpson JAM 10.95s
3. Torri Edwards USA 11.02s

100M Women’s Hurdles
1. Bridgette Foster Hylton JAM 12.49s
2. Sally McLellan AUS 12.53s
3. Joanna Hayes USA 12.67s

Triple Jump Men’s
1. Randy Lewis GRE 17.42m